... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
, the radical student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami
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The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
, left the party, and sat for a meeting in Foy's Lake area of Chittagong city in November 2013. They agreed to raise an gang under the cover of a non-government organization named Love for Rohingya, RAB personnel have said.
They later designed the new bully boy outfit named Shahid Hamza Brigade, appointed chiefs for its five wings -- three army teams, a media and another to collect new members, bought arms and ammunition, and later trained the recruits, most of who belonged to Chhatra Shibir and radical Islamist platform Hefajat-e-Islam
...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home...
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The Sherlocks said that each of the teams had seven members, all trained as "one-man army." The Chittagong-based outfit was styled as Syria-based international bully boy outfit Mujahideen with an aim to toppling the Awami League-led government through an armed revolution.
"They had plans to conduct massive subversive activities across the country as part of their armed revolution," Rapid Action Battalion
(RAB 7) Commanding Officer Lt Col Mifta Uddin said.To implement their operations, Hamza Brigade received money from the three lawyers held on Tuesday in the capital, and another Dubai citizen named Allama Libdi. RAB suspects that its chief have fled to Malaysia. The outfit's five accounts were managed by its leader Moniruzzaman Masud alias Don, a former Shibir activist.
Supreme Court lawyer barrister Shakila Farzana's name came in Don's confessional statement, RAB sources said. Names of the two other arrestees were found in confessional statements given by 27 other members of the group, who were tossed in the clink
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
since February.
Shakila is the joint general secretary of pro-BNP lawyers' body Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum. She is the daughter of Syed Wahidul Alam, a former BNP politician from Chittagong. Shakila and two of her associates were later put on remand in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The case was filed after RAB personnel busted a training camp of the outfit in a remote area of Chittagong's Banshkhali on February 21. Two days back, RAB conducted drive at Hamza Brigade's theoretical training centre "Al Madrasatul Abu Bakar" in Hathazari of Chittagong where the members had been given training using audio-visual materials in the guise of an Arabic language coaching centre. The madrasa-like coaching centre was run by Mohammad Fattah -- who is currently on the run.
RAB claims that Shakila deposited Tk25 lakh and Tk27 lakh for the outfit in two phases while Md Hasanuzzaman Liton deposited Tk31 lakh and Mahfuz Chowdhury Bapon Tk25 lakh. They found that Hamza Brigade's bank accounts had a total of Tk1,38,70,000.
"We are interrogating the lawyers about the source of money, their motive behind the funding and the other members of the outfit," Mifta said yesterday.
He said that most of the 29 Hamza Brigade detained since February were activists of Shibir, Qawmi madrasa-based platform Hefajat-e-Islam and other local bully boy organizations.